FRONTISPIECE: THE CHARACTERS FOR “BEGINNER’S MIND” IN CALLIGRAPHY BY SHUNRYU SUZUKI.
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Jaan Kaplinski, “Shunryu Suzuki” from The Wandering Border, translated from the Estonian by the author with Sam Hamill and Riina Tam.
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Suzuki, Shunryu, 1904–1971
Zen mind, beginner’s mind / Shunryu Suzuki; edited by Trudy Dixon, with a preface by Huston Smith, an introduction by Richard Baker, and an afterword by David Chadwick.—
40th anniversary ed.
p. cm.
eISBN 978-0-8348-2129-3
ISBN 978-1-59030-850-9 (hardcover: alk. paper)
ISBN 978-1-59030-890-5 (hardcover with slipcase: alk. paper)
ISBN 978-1-59030-849-3 (paperback: alk. paper)
1. Meditation—Zen Buddhism. 2. Zen Buddhism—Doctrines. I. Dixon, Trudy. II. Title.
BQ9288.S994 2010
294.3′4435—dc22
2010023230